Editing Crash Test Dummies (section)

=== Hiatus, ''Oooh La La'' 2006–2014 ===
After releasing three records through his own label, Roberts realized he was losing money. As such, he stopped recording and touring and instead worked as a songwriting teacher in New York City, while participating in yoga, chanting, and meditation (the latter influencing Roberts's side-project [[Satsang Circus]]).<ref name="CTDRoadAgain">{{cite web
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Despite the hiatus, in 2006 Brad Roberts began to record the album that would become ''Oooh La La'' with producer and friend Stewart Lerman, using the [[optigan]] and [[omnichord]].<ref name="CTDAvoidDestruction">{{cite web
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In October, 2007 [[Sony BMG]] released [[The Best of Crash Test Dummies]], featuring twelve tracks selected from the band's entire catalog, including most of their singles and several album tracks. The compilation would later be re-released on March 10, 2008, as "Best of Crash Test Dummies – Collections" with two previously unreleased tracks: "Laid Back" and "You Said You'd Meet Me (In California)", the latter being an early version of a song that would later appear on ''Oooh La La''.

In addition a new [[Online music store|online store]] was opened allowing users to purchase downloads from all of the band's post-BMG releases, including [[The Cape Breton Lobster Bash Series|Cape Breton Lobster Bash series]], a collection of songs written about Brad Roberts's experiences at Cape Breton and an annual tradition known as the "Lobster Bash".

Work continued in 2008 on songs for an album which was tentatively titled ''Toys''.
In July 2009, the title of the album was renamed from ''Toys'' to ''[[Oooh La La (Crash Test Dummies album)|Oooh La La]]''.<ref>[https://consequenceofsound.net/2010/05/album-review-crash-test-dummies-oooh-la-la/ "Crash Test Dummies – Oooh La La"]. by Matt Melis, May 12, 2010,</ref>

A fourth song in the [[The Cape Breton Lobster Bash Series|Cape Breton Lobster Bash series]] was released on July 27, 2009.

''Oooh La La'' was released on May 11, 2010. The album's release was accompanied by the band touring in an "Acoustic Trio" format consisting of Roberts and Ellen Reid, accompanied by either Stuart Cameron or Murray Pulver on guitar.<ref name="CTDFreePressMay2010">{{cite news|url= http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/entertainment/music/voice-from-citys-past-revives-dummies-with-new-cd-93182644.html|title= Voice from city's past revives Dummies with new CD|year= 2010|work= Winnipeg Free Press|last1= Williams|first1= Rob}}</ref> On October 9, 2010, as part of the Canadian leg of the tour, Dan Roberts and Mitch Dorge joined Brad Roberts and Ellen Reid in the band's hometown of Winnipeg for the first performance by the original line-up in a decade.  Benjamin Darvill was not present for the reunion, despite having played a solo show in town a few days earlier.<ref name="WinnipegSunCTDReuniion">{{cite web |first=Darryl|last=Sterdan |title=Crash Test Dummies: Mmm Mmm Good  |url=http://www.winnipegsun.com/entertainment/music/2010/10/10/15645361.html |publisher=[[Winnipeg Sun]] |access-date=11 October 2010}}</ref>  During the tour, Brad Roberts began the habit of taking photographs at random and posting them on his blog and the band's [[Facebook]] page.

In 2011, the band continued to tour in support of ''Oooh La La''. On April 19, 2011, the band released ''[[Demo-litions|Demo-litions: Cast-off Recordings 1996–97]]'' featuring previously unreleased demos of songs written during the recording of ''Give Yourself a Hand''.

In June 2012, Brad Roberts wrote a blog post saying that there is an incomplete new album lying around, but that producer Stewart Lerman is currently too busy with other projects to work on it.<ref name="CTDBlogJune2012">{{cite web|url= http://crashtestdummies.tumblr.com/post/24834495669/howdy-folks-i-have-not-been-on-here-in-quite-a|title= Blog Post – June 10, 2012|year= 2012|work= Crash Test Dummies Blog|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150924040916/http://crashtestdummies.tumblr.com/post/24834495669/howdy-folks-i-have-not-been-on-here-in-quite-a|archive-date= September 24, 2015}}</ref>